Corona44
Senior Heliman
Location: Sydney,NSW Australia
| I've been flying various Trex 450's for 18 months now, then I started thinking about what it would be to fly a somewhat bigger heli and started thinking about a trex 600 but the cost of the batteries was just to much for my budget. Then I started seeing posts about the Hurricane 550 and started reading about it but it seemed to have its fare share of problems much like the early Trex's did.
Anyway, when the Hurricane 550 Pro became available here in Australia I have one of those finacial moments of weakness and i'm now the proud owner of a 550 Pro and which as many of the early problem parst factory upgraded so I have only had to make a few minor changes.
I'm really starting to get a good feel for the bigger bird and now feel pretty confident about chucking it around the sky.
It's much bigger and thus much easier to see than the little Rex and the size certainly makes it somewhat more stable, especially in strong gusty winds as we have had in Sydney the last couple of weeks.
I'm getting between 7 to 8.5 minutes using the Air Thunder 2200 packs and its got surprising speed considering its size and weight.
I'm keeping the Rex as well but Hurricane is very nice as well and I think good value for what I paid for it.
Flying, crashing & having a ball. |
